What is Malaria, Causes, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment.

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Publicado 2018-08-21
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0:00 Introduction
0:18 Causes of Malaria
1:07 Signs and Symptoms of Malaria
1:38 Diagnosis Malaria
2:05 Treatment Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic single-celled microorganisms belonging to the Plasmodium group. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases it can cause yellow skin, seizures, coma, or death. Symptoms usually begin ten to fifteen days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. If not properly treated, people may have recurrences of the disease months later. In those who have recently survived an infection, reinfection usually causes milder symptoms.This partial resistance disappears over months to years if the person has no continuing exposure to malaria.

The disease is most commonly transmitted by an infected female Anopheles mosquito.The mosquito bite introduces the parasites from the mosquito's saliva into a person's blood. The parasites travel to the liver where they mature and reproduce.Five species of Plasmodium can infect and be spread by humans. Most deaths are caused by P. falciparum because P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae generally cause a milder form of malaria. The species P. knowlesi rarely causes disease in humans. Malaria is typically diagnosed by the microscopic examination of blood using blood films, or with antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests. Methods that use the polymerase chain reaction to detect the parasite's DNA have been developed, but are not widely used in areas where malaria is common due to their cost and complexity.
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  • @drstrange9907
    Your video says each and every detail given in text book in 10pages in just 3 minutes . very helpful
  • @omardiaz3305
    Exellent video, it helped me a lot in my Science class
  • @samahassaf9766
    Awesome,thank you I have a bio exam tomorrow, this is better than the book
  • @dokkanisbestgame5158
    My mum has malaria :( she got it after going to Bangladesh and she’s super cold and her temperature is really high :( I hope she gets better soon I made this post 1 year ago and as of 26th of June 2023, my mum made a full recovery weeks after she got it. She’s completely fine now!
  • @lunamorris2091
    Tons of valuable information, thank you so much. It helped me a lot.
  • @Abuumuqbil4994
    Twasema Asante htuna chakuwalipa Bali twasema shukran good
  • @sushma8969
    Thank you so much you have let me know about malaria.
  • @lynngraham2934
    I got malaria when I was 17 years old in California. I was living with Grandparents in Stanislaus County, but was from Arkansas before that. The Doctor said I could have contacted it in Arkansas or Cali either, but I am thinking it was Cali as I had gone frog hunting with Uncles a few weeks earlier. I had been bitten big time by mosquitoes during the frog hunt. They have the symptoms right, I started getting very cold in the evening, shaking and freezing, then a few hours later fever would hit and sweated so much it was unbelievable. It took about three weeks to get over and even then several years later it would hit again in mainly winter time. It was pure hell to say the least.
  • @mrnurageh2833
    I’m soo sick I was test came positive got headache back pain and bones and hot temperature 🤒 and got medicine but not feeling better yet
  • @meeladsamadi
    My friends dad died within a few hours of getting malaria, he went into a coma and a few hours later he stopped breathing. The doctors in Sri Lanka said it was due to a mosquito bite. That actually scares me a lot, if i ever go traveling i need to make you i have the right vaccines. 🤷🏼‍♂
  • @Blama_
    Thanks now Im gonna give these travel documents too some people in return for Malaria pills.
  • @leonawhitney6048
    During WW II 113256 American soldiers contracted malaria and 90 died before the National Malaria Eradication Program launched in 1947 was successful in 1951. I had a relative who suffered recurring boughts for the rest of his life